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Hey guys, Gary '13 finally showed up.   I knew it was only a matter of time!  ;) :D  love ya pal... even though you've morphed back into Conspiracy-Gary.  I know you'll morph back in a couple of weeks.

Look, the Sundqvist hit was probably worthy of a 1-game suspension IN THE REGULAR SEASON.  Complete and total BS to give him 1 game in the finals based on how Burke explained player safety policies.

Gary... dude ... no need for the hyperbole "intellectually honest hockey fan can see that wasn’t a penalty".  It was.  It seems only the people from St. Louis think that it wasn't.

Now you've gone and scared Tim away again.

Let's just try to enjoy the actual games fellas.  Don't be so focused on the craving to win to affect your enjoyment of the product.  Enjoy the thrill of the hunt as much as the kill.
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Hey guys, Gary '13 finally showed up.   I knew it was only a matter of time!  ;) :D  love ya pal... even though you've morphed back into Conspiracy-Gary.  I know you'll morph back in a couple of weeks.

Wasn't my choice....I've been conjured by the $hit show that is the NHL and the ref's they have calling these games. Difference is my rage isn't aimed at the Blues.

It seems only the people from St. Louis think that it wasn't.

What it wasn't was a play that warranted a suspension. Again, if 'they're' trying to clean up hockey then the Krug hit and the hit on Blais were just as bad. I've still yet to see an angle of Krugs hit where he played the puck. And:



you tell me the difference in the moment of contact on these two hits. The only difference is Blais didn't fall to the ice. Again....watch Sundquists hit....the ref that was literally 10 foot away and watched the whole hit had no intention of calling a penalty until Bostons player fell down to the ice. He didn't call it until then....a good three seconds after the hit.



Let's just try to enjoy the actual games fellas.  Don't be so focused on the craving to win to affect your enjoyment of the product.  Enjoy the thrill of the hunt as much as the kill.

It's tough to enjoy when things like say a clear too many men on the ice while on the PP leads directly to a goal......or a very clear slash that breaks a stick somehow isn't seen....or now a player is suspended for a hockey hit while other hockey hits are conveniently allowed.

Like I said....it gets old watching this crap happen to your team over and over and over. It'll make anyone a conspiracy theorist.
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Gary, You and I know when a head injury happen they well get suspended.  It sucks.  I know.  But in this day and age they are going to suspend. 

One game is an omission that we didn't want to but we had to so here's only one game.
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Joe, I get it but I still don’t see it as a suspendable play. Especially when the Boston player is the one who caused the injury by pulling up and changing his position Sundquist didn’t target him....he was forechecking. It’s not like he took  a 130 foot run at him and happened to hit him when the puck was close by.....the dude slipped and caused his own injury.


But whatever. I’ll stop bitching about it because it’s not gonna change anything. I should be used to having to deal with crap like this by now.
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It happened to us with Charlie McAvoy in the second round.  He's really our #1 defensman now and he was suspended for a game.  It sucks on the biggest stage but I think it might be a catalyst for your team.  They seem to thrive on adversity.
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It happened to us with Charlie McAvoy in the second round.  He's really our #1 defensman now and he was suspended for a game.  It sucks on the biggest stage but I think it might be a catalyst for your team.  They seem to thrive on adversity.

That could be the silver lining
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I hope not! :lol

I'm interesting in seeing how the B's come out the first 10 minutes. They have been great on the road and with the Blues setting the tone with physicality the last game I'd like to see them take it back from the Blues.
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Well, I’m hoping this suspension doesn’t affect how the Blues play. They play hard and heavy and need to keep doing it.
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What it wasn't was a play that warranted a suspension. Again, if 'they're' trying to clean up hockey then the Krug hit and the hit on Blais were just as bad. I've still yet to see an angle of Krugs hit where he played the puck. And:

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you tell me the difference in the moment of contact on these two hits.

Is this the hit on Blais you're talking about? Twitter (animated GIF)
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What it wasn't was a play that warranted a suspension. Again, if 'they're' trying to clean up hockey then the Krug hit and the hit on Blais were just as bad. I've still yet to see an angle of Krugs hit where he played the puck. And:

(image)

you tell me the difference in the moment of contact on these two hits.

Is this the hit on Blais you're talking about? Twitter (animated GIF)

I think it is, haven’t seen that angle before. His head hit the boards as well. That was a ‘good’ hit just as Sundquists was. Only difference is Boston’s guy goes down and Blais doesn’t.
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What it wasn't was a play that warranted a suspension. Again, if 'they're' trying to clean up hockey then the Krug hit and the hit on Blais were just as bad. I've still yet to see an angle of Krugs hit where he played the puck. And:

(image)

you tell me the difference in the moment of contact on these two hits.

Is this the hit on Blais you're talking about? Twitter (animated GIF)

I think it is, haven’t seen that angle before. His head hit the boards as well. That was a ‘good’ hit just as Sundquists was. Only difference is Boston’s guy goes down and Blais doesn’t.

One with a concession the other didn't.
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What it wasn't was a play that warranted a suspension. Again, if 'they're' trying to clean up hockey then the Krug hit and the hit on Blais were just as bad. I've still yet to see an angle of Krugs hit where he played the puck. And:

(image)

you tell me the difference in the moment of contact on these two hits.

Is this the hit on Blais you're talking about? Twitter (animated GIF)

I think it is, haven’t seen that angle before. His head hit the boards as well. That was a ‘good’ hit just as Sundquists was. Only difference is Boston’s guy goes down and Blais doesn’t.

One with a concession the other didn't.

All I can say is that D man better not be playing next game or this will be even more horse crap than it already is.
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I think it is, haven’t seen that angle before. His head hit the boards as well. That was a ‘good’ hit just as Sundquists was. Only difference is Boston’s guy goes down and Blais doesn’t.

Looks like the same ad on the board too. I'm not at all surprised that hit is basically all talk with next to no footage. It's hard but not on the numbers.
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Oh, so if you hit a guy now when you saw the numbers, it is wrong?  That will be interesting since every check from behind makes it impossible to not see the numbers when heading their way.

Gary's point was excellent that it wasn't even going to be a penalty until the Boston player went down and looked hurt.

But I guess, to paraphrase a line from an early Sopranos episode, when the NHL keeps shitting on our heads, we are supposed to say, "thanks for the hat."

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Anyone remember Steve Bernier's hit on Rob Scuderi in 2012?  While the results of this hit weren't the same, the hits themselves seem to me to be virtually indistinguishable.
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Hit on Blais - shoulder-to-shoulder, no head contact, no penalty, no suspension.  All good.

Hit on Grzelcyk - hit from behind (Grzelcyk's fault), head contact (Grzelcyk's fault), penalty, suspension.  None of it is fair, but the penalty was the right call (even though it's not fair - imo).  Suspension was NOT the right call.

Game 1; Krug on Thomas - straight on hit, no head contact, no penalty.  All good.

Look, Blues fans... leave the conspiracy theory discussions to 9/11 and homo-frogs.  The Blues have been on the short end of a few bad calls, but for the love of Pete, you guys sound like Alex Jones at this point.
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The Blues have been on the short end of a few bad calls, but for the love of Pete, you guys sound like Alex Jones at this point.

If the earth was actually round that penalty would never have been called
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Look, Blues fans... leave the conspiracy theory discussions to 9/11 and homo-frogs.  The Blues have been on the short end of a few bad calls, but for the love of Pete, you guys sound like Alex Jones at this point.

I have never said that I think there is a conspiracy; I just think a) NHL officiating is shitty, and b) the NHL sucks (as a company, the sport itself is awesome).   Case in point: they still never officially apologized to the team for the hand pass fiasco last round. Not that it would have changed the result, but they should have at least acted like they gave a shit.  When you see something like that, it demonstrates what low regard they have for certain franchises.  If that would have happened to Pittsburgh, Boston or any team from the NY or LA area, they would have tripped over themselves to apologize as fast as possible.

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Look, Blues fans... leave the conspiracy theory discussions to 9/11 and homo-frogs.  The Blues have been on the short end of a few bad calls, but for the love of Pete, you guys sound like Alex Jones at this point.

I have never said that I think there is a conspiracy; I just think a) NHL officiating is shitty, and b) the NHL sucks (as a company, the sport itself is awesome).   Case in point: they still never officially apologized to the team for the hand pass fiasco last round. Not that it would have changed the result, but they should have at least acted like they gave a shit.  When you see something like that, it demonstrates what low regard they have for certain franchises.  If that would have happened to Pittsburgh, Boston or any team from the NY or LA area, they would have tripped over themselves to apologize as fast as possible.

When you’re consistently on ‘the short end of the stick’ it’s tough not to go ‘Alex Jones’. It wears a mo fo down yo
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Look, Blues fans... leave the conspiracy theory discussions to 9/11 and homo-frogs.  The Blues have been on the short end of a few bad calls, but for the love of Pete, you guys sound like Alex Jones at this point.

I have never said that I think there is a conspiracy; I just think a) NHL officiating is shitty, and b) the NHL sucks (as a company, the sport itself is awesome).   Case in point: they still never officially apologized to the team for the hand pass fiasco last round. Not that it would have changed the result, but they should have at least acted like they gave a shit.  When you see something like that, it demonstrates what low regard they have for certain franchises.  If that would have happened to Pittsburgh, Boston or any team from the NY or LA area, they would have tripped over themselves to apologize as fast as possible.

Perhaps "conspiracy" was the wrong word.  'No intentional unequal treatment'... let's go with that.  You obviously feel that the Blues are treated unequally (your last sentence above validates this).  But please point to a situation when has the NHL - hell, ANY league - issued an officially statement apologizing for an incorrect call?  There is a difference between acknowledging and apologizing.  Even Goodell never "apologized" for the call against the Saints.  Point me to a time when any of those other franchises got an official apology.  You're butt-hurt ... we get it.  But seriously dude... reality check.
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Look, Blues fans... leave the conspiracy theory discussions to 9/11 and homo-frogs.  The Blues have been on the short end of a few bad calls, but for the love of Pete, you guys sound like Alex Jones at this point.

I have never said that I think there is a conspiracy; I just think a) NHL officiating is shitty, and b) the NHL sucks (as a company, the sport itself is awesome).   Case in point: they still never officially apologized to the team for the hand pass fiasco last round. Not that it would have changed the result, but they should have at least acted like they gave a shit.  When you see something like that, it demonstrates what low regard they have for certain franchises.  If that would have happened to Pittsburgh, Boston or any team from the NY or LA area, they would have tripped over themselves to apologize as fast as possible.

Perhaps "conspiracy" was the wrong word.  'No intentional unequal treatment'... let's go with that.  You obviously feel that the Blues are treated unequally (your last sentence above validates this).  But please point to a situation when has the NHL - hell, ANY league - issued an officially statement apologizing for an incorrect call?  There is a difference between acknowledging and apologizing.  Even Goodell never "apologized" for the call against the Saints.  Point me to a time when any of those other franchises got an official apology.  You're butt-hurt ... we get it.  But seriously dude... reality check.

http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/26604171/nhl-apologizes-vegas-major-penalty-call

Gotta appease the new kid in town (Vegas), I suppose.

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I knew that was forthcoming funny enough, I read that exact same article.  That was not an official statement/apology - private conversation with McPhee, and his word that they apologized.  Who's to say that Armstrong didn't get a similar call, but he's classy enough to KEEP it private.

Look, you guys have lots of reasons to be pissed and/or annoyed, but I think things are being taken a titch too far on some of them.

Let's just focus on the Blues playing great, giving Marchand a metaphoric cunt-punch, and bringing Lord Stanley to the mid-west.
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You leave our cunt out of it you Canuck.  :-*
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I was gonna put this in the funny thread, but I think we could use a little levity here.

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I'll bet the chef burned the Blues' dog, and the Bruins' dog was cooked just right.
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I'll bet the chef burned the Blues' dog, and the Bruins' dog was cooked just right.

And never even apologized for burning it.   :rollin
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I'll bet the chef burned the Blues' dog, and the Bruins' dog was cooked just right.

So much for "see ya in 2 weeks"...:P

I knew that was forthcoming funny enough, I read that exact same article.  That was not an official statement/apology - private conversation with McPhee, and his word that they apologized.  Who's to say that Armstrong didn't get a similar call, but he's classy enough to KEEP it private.

Look, you guys have lots of reasons to be pissed and/or annoyed, but I think things are being taken a titch too far on some of them.

Let's just focus on the Blues playing great, giving Marchand a metaphoric cunt-punch, and bringing Lord Stanley to the mid-west.

 :tup :tup to all of the bolded.  :coolio

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The Blues are definitely running Rask to get him off his game. Good move. The D needs to clear them out.

The 1st line needs to wake up.
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They are not asleep; the Blues are just playing them tough and clamping down on their chances.

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They are not asleep; the Blues are just playing them tough and clamping down on their chances.

For sure but they are passing too much instead of shooting. They need to stop being fancy.
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Also, the best line in all the league can play better.
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This thread has been hilarious to follow during these finals  :lol Can't wait for the game tonight...

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Time to mow the lawn, make dinner and hunker down for game 3.  I'll need to charge my phone for you F'ers. :lol
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Holy moly! 3-0 B's!
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